Abstract
To unveil spirituality in the care process of nursing professionals in the hospital context under the lens of Transpersonal Caring. A descriptive-exploratory study implementing a qualitative approach conducted with professionals from the nursing team in a general hospital in Bahia, using a semi-structured interview submitted to the content analysis technique and analyzed from the perspective of the Theory of Transpersonal Caring theoretical framework. There were 16 professionals who participated. It was found that the nursing team perceives the patient and family's demand for spiritual care, and sometimes even has experiences and suggestions for interventions, especially those which cultivate faith and spirituality, but this does not happen with most of these professionals who demonstrate difficulties, unpreparedness and fear of taking on such care responsibility. There is a need to develop better interaction/spiritual care skills by nursing professionals in the challenging context of the search for meaning, faith and hope mobilized by the disease experience. The Systematization of Spiritual Nursing Care and Transpersonal Caring stand out as appropriate devices, which provide consistent subsidies for undertaking spiritual care.
Highlights
This study has spirituality in the hospital nursing care context as its theme. It emerged from the concerns experienced in the “Welcoming Multidisciplinary Grouping (MGW): action of teaching-research-extension in proving care of the family facing the risk of hospital death” and developed from the perspective of Watson’s Theory of Transpersonal Caring, which is based on 10 Carative factors: humanistic-altruistic value system; faith-hope; cultivation of sensitivity for one’s self and for the other; development of helping-trust relationship; promotion/acceptance of the expression of positive and negative feelings; systematic and creative use of science; promotion of transpersonal teaching-learning; the provision of a mental, social, spiritual support environment; assistance with gratification of human needs; and allowance for existential-phenomenological spiritual forces[1]
Needs of spiritual care perceived in the individual Strategies suggested for spiritual nursing care
The physical body is only a reflection of the spirit, a place where the person symbolically builds the meaning of their life and seeks refuge from the vulnerability triggered by crisis situations[3,13]
Summary
For Watson, nursing care must reach the other in its total body-mind-soul. Its understanding is illustrated by the Sacred Mirrors by Gray, resulting from studies of human anatomy and body-mind-spirit interconnection, which show successive images changing from the physical body, evolving to the spiritual level. These images allow the viewer to ‘mirror’ their own image, experiencing a resonance between their being and the image of the sacred mirrors, creating the sense of self-introspection[2]
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